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Newspaper
Kingsport Times
Location
Kingsport, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1925
Page
7
French forces captured the Djeb Amesses range and reoccupied Dakar in Morocco after routing the Rif forces. French tanks moved in as four American aviators volunteered to serve with the Sultan of Morocco and join the French line. Four more Americans will join when an American escadrille is formed.
Louisville report says two men and their wives on the way to Chicago were halted by three automobiles near Lafayette Indiana. The robbers took their cars but did not search the victims and left them on the outskirts at night. Police found no trace of the assailants.
Thomas Poole, a Black man, died at Riverview hospital at 2 a.m. from injuries suffered Saturday night when he fell or was thrown under a freight train near the Clinch field railroad close to the Southern tracks crossing the Clinchfield road. His body lay in a local undertaker’s, awaiting relatives from Asheville, N C, for shipment. Poole said he had left a Southern passenger train and was told he could catch a Clinchfield train if he could flag it, but he could not explain how the accident happened.
Two men and a girl drowned when their row boat capsized in rough seas on Lake Ontario near Rochester New York. One man swam to safety. The incident occurred today.
On cross examination in Maryville the murder trial of William D. Sheffey revealed he admitted a few affairs with young girls and denied many suggested by the prosecutor. He recalled a 17 year old incident at Carson-Newman College and said he was told to leave.
Major General Taylor chief of the army engineers said he would accept the board's report on the steamship Norman disaster which blamed officers and men involved in the operation. He added it was too late to pursue further action and emphasized preventing future accidents.
Floods across Tokyo and Yokohama submerged more than forty thousand houses, with two deaths from a landslide caused train derailment. The floods began subsiding on the day of reporting, August 27.
Dr Thomas W Young on trial for the murder of his wife and burial in a cistern killed himself in the Los Angeles county jail. He hanged himself with wire in his cell after being found unresponsive by cellmate Harry Foster. The death ends the trial as jurors had been visiting the cistern scene.
Mercedes Gleitzer a 24 year old London typist tried to swim the English Channel but quit eight miles from Folkestone due to a cramp. She was vacationing at Folkestone and had no special training. Her previous longest swim was eleven hours in the Thames.
Keokuk Iowa plans a Mark Twain memorial in a new insurance building next to the old print shop where Twain worked as a printer in 1856. The room will house records of Clemens life including a printer's case photographs autographs and possibly the city directory he helped publish with his brother Orion.
James C. Whetzell a life prisoner at Nashville faces a new murder charge for killing state prisoner C. W. Maynard in the penitentiary clothing shop following an argument. Maynard 28 from Hamilton county was serving four grand larceny counts. Whetzell had previously killed his wife at the Kingsport laundry in October 1919 and was jailed for life.
Thomas Urbano wicz of 535 East Fifteenth Street was sentenced in special sessions to six months in the workhouse after claiming rheumatism and sun baths led him to lie beside Kew Gardens Road Queens where Julia Zalla of 8523 126th Street Richmond Hill fled screaming. A police arrest followed.
Jim Whetzell, 25, already serving life for murder at the Tennessee State Prison, will face another murder charge for fatally stabbing C. W. Maynard in the prison clothing shop. Whetzell allegedly drew a contraband knife and struck Maynard, who died before he could speak. The motive remains undetermined after an investigation by Commissioner Lewis Pope.
Tokyo authorities aim to reclaim several hundred acres yearly by using earth from subway and sewer projects. The plan, costing about 30 million yen, would raise low ground made habitable and may use government aid. The subway work is expected to yield enough material to cover 333 acres.
Clarence Darrow, amid the Dayton trial, labels Raulston’s publicity charges as a campaign stunt. He argues evolution is conclusive, not aimed at destroying religion, and that civilization rests on science rather than Christianity.
The engineer and fireman of the Pittsburgh to Buffalo flyer were injured when the train derailed on a switch near Pittsburgh. Several passengers were shaken up as the locomotive turned over and two coaches derailed while five stayed on the track.
In Wilkes Barre and Lansford Pennsylvania the midnight appeal of citizens to miners to resume scale negotiations with operators has no effect on looming strike plans set for September 1. Eight hundred miners at Lansford walked out over yardage payment disputes as talks with a no strike committee ended without concessions.
Louisville August 27 cattle two hundred slow and steady range quotations unchanged hogs up six hundred twenty five cents to thirteen fifty sheep eleven hundred steady lambs thirteen twenty five ewes and wethers and sheep quotations unchanged
Seven men died when a boiler at the gunnery near Union Town Alabama exploded today. The victims include one white man and six African Americans. Rescue crews rushed to the scene as investigators began work on the cause of the blast.
Brighton EnglandBritain faces unemployment postwar with calls from brewers for cheaper beer as a remedy The idea appeals to workers and industry groups hoping to ease economic strain and stimulate consumption and employment opportunities after the war.
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